Because of the looming "fiscal cliff," this season is prompting many gift givers to consider a different sort of present for children and teens: The gift of stock. Photo: Reuters.

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... I ... all ... these things are honest people going out to the mall going down the Main Street to buy a good ... stocking stuffer to stop the put under the trees what though ... is the hottest gift this year what might be a lot of it this year ... to keep the stock ... he is here with this story ... on Stocks are stocks is a good Christmas ... well you know it's this isn't necessarily a brand new thing I mean people have bought about Brazil people always stop cash and on the libretto holidays and people have given stops before ... um we have talk about the fiscal cliff we had Sanaa Rio is that art making people think about stocks a little bit more this year ... I mean the big issue when you're talking about very large scale giving ... on the is um is the gift tax exemption right now stands at a little more than five million dollars ... over a lifetime ... if the cliffs in our happens the way you know it's a good ... he can go down to one million so there's been ... there's been sort of a push to give well you can and it's essentially a has no veto it removes all these tax implications all these ... hits all these penalties ... so so you know this is something that that cushion along the second thing also clip related deaths pushing along ... is that the capital gains taxes gonna go up next year not giving money away you getting away and so one would say why does it matter if you know when you do when you're not you know you don't have to do with the Catholic in to the point is ... you're you're thinking to yourself if I hold on to the stock Sullivan a later time on them to pay more for maybe I should give it away now so ... low that two percent of the UK them and so ... now he's been really really track ... is no hard data on MEP was given we are now know why you talk to fund managers and they have said this is definitely a way that they they say what they're getting is a lot of clients were calling up saying you know what's going on with the fiscal cliff what should I do ... and ... I was thinking about maybe getting a gift when you think and and so they've been basically what what what what many financial advisors have told me ... is that they keep getting this phone call saying what you do about the cliff and maybe I'll do the same idea give a holiday gift anyhow so maybe I'll make if you think ... you know I would stay on top of that there's been a huge push just in general um in this country especially in the last couple years of for Financial literacy getting kids to learn more about Stockton these kids are going have to own the retirement eventually different world ... um since two thousand ate people balsa really you know what I feel like ... they're wanna make a mistake to let the kids to make mistakes they did to the events of a push to get kids more involved in understanding ... investments and that the fall is that stock ownership is a great tool to do that now ... for the recipient of the gifts I mean it gets obviously correctly that the recipient of the kid gets ... there are some tax implication sure I mean I mean first of all a if if if if a child is young ... and and and and and and sells the stock of even if their past the age of consent or whatever um they can still be subject to the kiddie tax a mean there's no necessarily a free ride ... I think for for for for children who receive um stop ... court in lower tax bracket but independent ... bomb a could actually work out fairly well to their advantage and they will slow the pace ... on attacks on Western incredibly low tax bracket ... aam and but I mean they will slow to pay tax on it so you are giving away that your your your your ... the the the the cost basis passed along with the deal so they will have to pay all attacks on the question is how much I'll a stock that has to go again